Job Description

About the role
Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a Regional Utilities Lead to join our Highways team covering the North of England.
As a Regional Utilities Lead, you will be tasked with aligning and managing the utilities team in the North of England, currently covering the A66 (Penrith), A63 (Hull), A57 (Manchester), A1/M1 CSB scheme (Leeds) in the pre-construction and construction phases. You will ensure commercial robustness within utilities and within the North of England of Balfour Beatty highway projects.
Balfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage, and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live work and play.
What you'll be doing

• Leading Highways major projects portfolios in the North, in all aspects associated with Utilities

• Identify any pre-construction scope within each scheme (with respect to Utilities) and agree the scope with the Project Director.

• Resource the project to deliver the scope of works in agreement with the Project Director for each scheme, with budget accountability for each project.

• Identify contestable vs non-contestable works when considering approach to Utilities diversions.

• Ensure that Risks are inserted into the risk register for each project.

• The role requires the individual to audit each project in the portfolio to ensure that the BMS procedures are being adhered to on each scheme.

• Co-operation and co-ordination with the Regional Utilities Lead in the South of England to ensure a single business process through the highways business, including creating training content.

Who we're looking for

• Takes ownership of tasks and communicates outcomes with clarity, direction, and purpose, including managing others in this regard.

• Able to frequently work on own initiative and seek out opportunities in line with level of responsibility and lead and manage others

• Holds a current driving license

• Able and willing to make decisions following consideration of options based on best available information.

• Provision of assistance and expert knowledge to reinforce the objectives of the work winning teams.

Still interested? then come and become colleagues with 26,000 staff and join a business which recorded 8.6bn in revenues last year, achieved industry leading customer satisfaction scores and has unrivalled employee engagement statistics.
An excellent range of benefits awaits the successful candidate: -

• An attractive / negotiated salary

• 42 core base hours per week

• Company car

• Hybrid working available

• 25 days annual leave

• Pension savings schemes

• A whole host of other BB staff employee bens (discounts, exclusive offers etc)

• Refer a friend bonus scheme

• Scores of other Balfour Beatty opportunities available as well via our

portal.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more...
About us
Balfour Beatty's Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit
We are a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
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